William E. Wright

William Ewington Wright (8 June 1798-14 July 1875) was a general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
William Ewington Wright was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States on 8 June 1798, a member of an aristocratic family. His father, Jonathan Wright, was a wealthy surveyor; his mother, Marie McDougall, was the daughter of a plantation owner. Wright grew up in wealth, and he served in the US Army during the Seminole Wars, being commissioned into the military with the rank of Lieutenant. Wright also served in the Mexican-American War as a Colonel, leading a regiment during the fighting for Veracruz. He would become a Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army in 1861 during the American Civil War, and he led CSA troops on the Virginia front against George B. McClellan's Union forces during the war. Wright retired from the army after the war's end, and he died in 1875 at the old age of 77.